Checkbox in frontmatter does not work

[Maduki-tech]

Hello,
I try to create a Habit Tracker, where i use the Checkbox in the Frontmatter. But the Calender View does not work with the Checkbox. I need to use a Number 0 and 1.

Is there a way to do this?

[aladmit]

Hey👋🏼 I was wondering the same thing. I found that plugin doesn't handle boolean values in frontmatter at the moment, so there is no way to do that by 'searchType: frontmatter'.

But! Obsidian Checkbox type can guarantee that field value always is going to be either true or false. It allows us to use text search safely and be sure data always going to look the same way.

My current calendar to track sport habit through checkbox looks like this:

searchType: text
searchTarget: 'stretching: true'
month:

[lazyguru]

There is an open PR that solves this #177. Additionally, my fork has almost every open PR merged on it and I did a release that you can manually install: https://github.com/lazyguru/obsidian-tracker/releases/tag/v1.11.0

[Maduki-tech]

Hey👋🏼 I was wondering the same thing. I found that plugin doesn't handle boolean values in frontmatter at the moment, so there is no way to do that by 'searchType: frontmatter'.

But! Obsidian Checkbox type can guarantee that field value always is going to be either true or false. It allows us to use text search safely and be sure data always going to look the same way.

My current calendar to track sport habit through checkbox looks like this:

searchType: text
searchTarget: 'stretching: true'
month:

Great this helped me. Works fine for me.

Chiming in to say I ran into this issues (of booleans not being parsed correctly) and this fix would be helpful!